His hair looks like a nut. If you take a close look, his hairstyle looks like Tintin.
I'm afraid of hair transplant because I'm losing my hair unpredictably and every 6 months I either have a slow down or a shedding phase that destroys what little is left of my hair line. It would suck if I had a transplant and in 6 months later I had an island of hair on my head. It's really sad that we don't have a sideless maintenance treatment in 2019. I tried finasteride and it gave me sides, permanently making my dick less sensitive.

His hair looks like a nut. If you take a close look, his hairstyle looks like Tintin.
I'm afraid of hair transplant because I'm losing my hair unpredictably and every 6 months I either have a slow down or a shedding phase that destroys what little is left of my hair line. It would suck if I had a transplant and in 6 months later I had an island of hair on my head. It's really sad that we don't have a sideless maintenance treatment in 2019. I tried finasteride and it gave me sides, permanently making my dick less sensitive.

I think hair loss sufferers need to get used to the idea that no matter where they are on the Norwood scale, they are waging a life-long battle. There is no "just do this and be done with it" when you suffer from genetic from hair loss.

I knew this when I started using minoxidil for example. On the French hair loss forum Doctissimo, someone wrote: "minoxidil is like the mafia, once you start using it, you're in for life." And yeah, look at me nearly 10 years later still smearing my scalp (and now my beard) in minoxidil.

It's the same when it comes to finasteride, but even for that, you never now when side-effects might creep in, or when you want to start conceiving a child (I would disregard people who say 'I know someone who had a child on finasteride and everything was fine!'). You could stop for many reasons.

And even then, none of the proven treatments will stop your hair loss, just slow it down significantly at best. Then what? FUE hair transplants, while also keeping in mind that no, you're not set for life, most likely not, unless you give up on hair and aesthetics altogether someday.

I wouldn't worry about having to get another hair transplant, I know it can be expensive and it's a hassle, but you know what? What's important is that it's still possible. I'm having my third and last hair transplant in three weeks and after that, I'm done, I can't get extra actual hair back on the top of my head, it's over, it's not in the realm of the possible for my hair to get better. Only fringe procedures like using SMP and beard grafts can be considered after that.

All this to say, I'd have been infinitely grateful if I had been dealt slightly better cards. In the same manner that I'm grateful not to be a NW7 with a thin donor like some men I've seen at my workplace. What I've always been afraid of, especially hair-wise, was to be stuck without any viable solution, no matter how much money I had, something that would have been inevitable had I been born 10 years earlier. Quite scary to think about it, even these forums are a godsend, since they prevent you from thinking that you are alone, losing your mind or overreacting.

I think hair loss sufferers need to get used to the idea that no matter where they are on the Norwood scale, they are waging a life-long battle. There is no "just do this and be done with it" when you suffer from genetic from hair loss.

I knew this when I started using minoxidil for example. On the French hair loss forum Doctissimo, someone wrote: "minoxidil is like the mafia, once you start using it, you're in for life." And yeah, look at me nearly 10 years later still smearing my scalp (and now my beard) in minoxidil.

It's the same when it comes to finasteride, but even for that, you never now when side-effects might creep in, or when you want to start conceiving a child (I would disregard people who say 'I know someone who had a child on finasteride and everything was fine!'). You could stop for many reasons.

And even then, none of the proven treatments will stop your hair loss, just slow it down significantly at best. Then what? FUE hair transplants, while also keeping in mind that no, you're not set for life, most likely not, unless you give up on hair and aesthetics altogether someday.

I wouldn't worry about having to get another hair transplant, I know it can be expensive and it's a hassle, but you know what? What's important is that it's still possible. I'm having my third and last hair transplant in three weeks and after that, I'm done, I can't get extra actual hair back on the top of my head, it's over, it's not in the realm of the possible for my hair to get better. Only fringe procedures like using SMP and beard grafts can be considered after that.

All this to say, I'd have been infinitely grateful if I had been dealt slightly better cards. In the same manner that I'm grateful not to be a NW7 with a thin donor like some men I've seen at my workplace. What I've always been afraid of, especially hair-wise, was to be stuck without any viable solution, no matter how much money I had, something that would have been inevitable had I been born 10 years earlier. Quite scary to think about it, even these forums are a godsend, since they prevent you from thinking that you are alone, losing your mind or overreacting.

How did the transplant go? Did you get the 1000 grafts you thought were available?